Sally Field
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I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 November 2022 source ↗
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